The joys of scratchy sketching

[avram]

I did this pencil sketch on the subway last week. I think the guy noticed me, but he just kept on reading. I’d forgotten how much I like drawing in pencil. I ran a blending marker over the graphite later; maybe that’ll keep it from smudging. Probably not, but maybe.

I sketched this woman quickly after dinner at a local pizzeria, using my Pilot Precise V5. There’s something freeing about just slapping some rough ink lines down quick and then going back and developing the details and emphasizing the good bits. Maybe I should Photoshop some color in, like mishmow does here.






Yeah, I know — Enough sketches, just get on with doing the comic already.

BTW, the books I’m using the weigh down my scanner cover (to help my Moleskine lie flat) are the Angels and Devils books from Taschen’s Icons series.